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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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    • 82 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Star Trek
    In the pop high it delivers, this is the greatest prequel ever made.
  2. The White Ribbon
    The ends remain loose in The White Ribbon.’ But that lack of closure is thrilling. Haneke lays his movie and its mysteries at our feet, leaving us to ask, “What in tarnation?’’
  3. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
    This movie catalogs a wealth of human ugliness. It’s even been made to look ugly, presumably to underscore the horror movie that is Precious’s life.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    A Serious Man
    It’s a work of cruel comic genius, in some ways even crueler than “No Country for Old Men.’’
    • 97 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    Writer-director Cristian Mungiu confirms the Romanian cinema renaissance while creating a paradoxical marvel: a bleak tale of illegal abortion that powerfully affirms one's faith in people.
  6. Killer of Sheep
    A milestone of eloquent understatement that captures the daily life of have-nots as few American movies have.
  7. The Beaches of Agnès
    The movie is also more extraordinary than a mere scenic slideshow.
  8. Pan's Labyrinth
    Pan's Labyrinth is a transcendent work of art.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Up
    On the most basic level the new film is pure vaudeville: a loopy flyaway fantasy that's hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sideways
    It's a performance (Giamatti's) so nuanced and so real in its everyday pain that it doesn't stand a chance of winning an Oscar. But it should.
  11. There Will Be Blood
    There Will Be Blood" is anti-state of the art. It's the work of an analog filmmaker railing against an increasingly digitized world. In that sense, the movie is idiosyncratic, too: vintage visionary stuff.
  12. Police, Adjective
    The usual emphasis in a detective film is upended so that procedure, thrillingly, is more important than action. In its own way, this is one of the most intense cop movies you'll see.
  13. The Class
    I was much more disheartened leaving the movie the first time I saw it than I was the second. Its richness resides in its apparent objectivity. Without sacrificing a sense of hope, Cantet suggests that the school system is just like a certain vexing grammatical tense: imperfect but still fighting against irrelevance.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    No Country for Old Men
    The Coens also understand the stark immediacy of this tale, and they visualize it with brilliantly judged details.
  15. Gomorrah
    Both a staggering realist thriller and a jeremiad.
  16. No End in Sight
    Ferguson's film is a clear-sighted counterpoint to the former secretary of defense's impression. As the title suggests, it's a seemingly infinite mess.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Slumdog Millionaire
    You may even feel like dancing in the aisles yourself. Sure, the real world doesn't always work this way. Have you forgotten that this is one of the reasons why we go to movies in the first place?
    • 95 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    WALL-E
    The best American film of the year to date.
  19. Children of Men
    This is an extraordinary artistic breakthrough from a Mexican director who was already fearlessly good to begin with.
  20. Pride & Prejudice
    Jane Austen's novel has been rejiggered into a jaunty romantic comedy that leaves us as incandescently happy as its characters.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Man on Wire
    The sight is magical and heartbreaking in equal measure. Look, the movie says: Where so many would fall, a man walks on air.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Once
    Once is the first rock musical that actually makes sense. People don't burst into song in this movie because the orchestra's swelling out of nowhere. The guy and the girl are working musicians -- or they'd like to be, if they could make a living at it -- and they're played by working musicians.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Turtles Can Fly
    Ghobadi shows us a world where a village pond can hold both rare goldfish and unforgivable evil, and where every step is onto booby-trapped terrain.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Letters from Iwo Jima
    Eloquent, bloody, and daringly simple.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Million Dollar Baby
    More than "Unforgiven," more than "Mystic River," it is Clint Eastwood's autumnal masterpiece.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Queen
    A subtle, often very funny, ultimately touching tragedy of royal manners and meaning.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Murderball
    Murderball is a paradox: a movie about quadriplegics that insists we look beyond their disability.
  28. The Edge of Heaven
    With impeccable skill, Akin has made a film roiling with cruelty but guided by tough political optimism. No, we can't all get along, but some us of are trying.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Wrestler
    The Wrestler is a character study, no more and no less, yet it's open-ended enough to function as many things.
  30. Ballast
    This is the most significant feature about poor black life since Charles Burnett's 1977 "Killer of Sheep."
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